Good Society
The government’s redefinition will magically reduce child poverty
Almost two out of three in Britain's poor live in working households - thanks to the changes they'll be left out of poverty statistics
worklessness
Getting worklessness wrong, again
‘Worklessness’ is one of those terms which means one thing in specialist usage and something quite different in political discourse and media commentary.
The myth of the intergenerational workless household
References to the pattern of intergenerational worklessness in households are rarely accompanied by any relevant statistics on the no. of households involved.